Professional job vacancies up 15%

PROFESSIONAL job vacancies soared by 15% to 4,896 in March compared with a year earlier with a rise in demand noticed for recently qualified accountants and sales staff.

Month-on-month, however, job vacancies fell in March by 13%, ending five consecutive monthly increases in new job vacancies registered. Despite this the number of vacancies in March was still higher than at any point in 2009.

Chief executive of Premier Group Ireland Brian Murphy said: “While the number of new roles coming onto the professional jobs market in Ireland in March 2010 was down on the previous month, this fall should be considered in the context of the overall improvement in outlook in the first quarter of this year.